Do you see, I love... equally, I think, but both more than myself--two creatures, Seryozha and Alexey.

" She came out into the middle of the room and stood facing Dolly, with her arms pressed tightly across her chest.

In her white dressing gown her figure seemed more than usually grand and broad.

She bent her head, and with shining, wet eyes looked from under her brows at Dolly, a thin little pitiful figure in her patched dressing jacket and nightcap, shaking all over with emotion.